VANR: 11668
Language of Instruction: English
Fakultätsübergreifend + international mit drei weiteren europäischen Hochschulen (Unterrichtssprache: Englisch)
| ECTS | 5 or 6 |
|---|---|
| Start | 23.04.2025 |
| End | 11.07.2025 |
| Termin | Online Lectures from April 23rd to May 28th 2025 Work (2 hours per week) Presential week (35 hours) June 2nd to June 6th 2025 |
| Location | Hochschule Bremen |
| Maximum number of participants | 8 |
| Professor | Prof. Andreas Teufel and Jendrik Bulk from HSB with colleagues from the European partner universities (t.b.c.) |
| Contact | Prof. Andreas Teufel: andreas.teufel@hs-bremen.de Yana Yerofeyeva (departmental International Office, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science): yana.yerofeyeva@hs-bremen.de |
In this Blended Intensive Program (BIP) we will explore the enormous possibilities that games and gamification offer for knowledge transfer. The key word is “serious game”. A serious game is more or less the transfer of knowledge using methods and aspects that usually are applied to (digital or real world) games like role play, creating avatars, challenges, levels or rewards – and many more.
We will design gaming concepts, develop prototypes, test and evaluate them. Teams of max. 6 international students jump into methodologies like the human centered design process or design thinking to find new solutions or innovative approaches for unsolved challenges or open questions. These questions will be provided from our external partners from arts, design and culture. Our partners also act as experts and advisors for the teams.
TEAM ENGAGEMENT (facilitator, students, partner): get familiar with case
exploring the context, identify stakeholders and list all, field work preparation, meet up with external partner;
• UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT SITUATION: Individual observation; Individual
investigation, Study users and selected stakeholders, Document findings;
• IDEATE: Identify insights; Understand the stakeholders; Develop analogies; Grow common understanding; Create solutions; Present concept to external partner;
• VALIDATE: Validation by peers, Validation by experts, Review of the requirements, Debate Minimum value proposition to external partner;
• DESIGN AND ITERATE: Improve / develop solutions, Test and validate until final state;
• DEMONSTRATE: Prototyping the solution(s); Feedback gathering (experts,
mentors, users); Final Pitch Preparation; Invite external partner to final pitch.
Your solutions as a team can range from serious games in the physical world to
2D, 3D, AR or VR prototypes, depending on your skills and interests. No matter if you study humanities, social science, business management, engineering, art, design or computer sciences: We will create teams from different disciplines so that each team has a broad perspective on the challenge to be solved.
all HSB students
Students on Bachelor´s and Master´s level
Students need to send an application incl. motivational letter und CV, stating their study course and semester to the contact persons (see above)
Acquire skills to work productively and professionally with all
stakeholders and contribute to multidisciplinary, multicultural and
transnational team activities.
• Understand problems, recognise the value of user empathy and
develop appropriate ideas.
• Development of a comprehensive project plan that takes into account
the most important activities and milestones of the project.
• Adapt and proactively respond to challenges.
• Collaborate productively with team members on all aspects of the
challenge/project.
• Investigating a real problem/challenge for the live case scenario and
deriving insights and solutions.
• Develop innovative, creative and effective solutions to the challenge
and consider the needs of the client/stakeholder.
• Investigate and define problems by exploring the underlying and
broader issues.
• Determine where to obtain the information and tools needed to solve
the problem.
• Evaluate and prioritise how to solve the problem
Final Pitch / Presentation of results (applies to 5 ECTS)
Final Pitch / Presentation of results / Documentation (applies to 6 ECTS)
VANR: 11668
Topic: Serious Game Development “Are You Serious?!” (BIP)
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